Trying to help out a taxidermist with a deer cape he needs that I have. Only question is he uses a dry preservative and the cape is salted and dried. Can he still rehydrate and wash this cape then safely use his method of mounting the trophy or does salting a cape ruin it's properties for such methods? I'd really like to see this man get his job done. Thankyou...
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Mr. Sam is long gone but he always said that a salted hide was worthless to him using his "Bess Maid" dp and he refused them. He claimed that the salt had leeched into the skin and would forever cause problems. PERSONALLY, it would seem that the salt is topical and leeched the moisture out. By rehydrating the hide, it would SEEM the salt would be removed.
The taxidermist who needs this cape is from Georgia. Hope some one can help him out with a frozen one.
It gives a procedure for doing this. Works okay as long as the skin was good when salted. Page 332. Look for their ad in the back classified section of hunting mags.
set flesh overnite with salt and then shake salt off - flesh - dp and tumble and then mo0unt - no troubles yet - have done about 100 this way - used to tan e'thing - waste of time - i cant see any difference and im my own worst critic